Maxcy Gregg

Maxcy Gregg (1 August 1814-15 December 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Maxcy Gregg was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1814, the great-grandson of Continental Navy admiral Esek Hopkins. Gregg became a lawyer in 1839 after graduating, first in his class, from South Carolina College, and he served as a Major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Gregg was a major proponent of secession before the Civil War, and he helped in organizing the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. He later became a Brigadier-General in A.P. Hill's division of the Army of Northern Virginia, fighting against the Army of the Potomac in northern Virginia during the campaigns of 1862. Gregg was wounded in the leg at Antietam, and his spinal cord was severed by a Union bullet at the Battle of Fredericksburg as he mistook a nearby Union brigade for friendly Confederate troops. He died of his wounds two days later.